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The field of organic electronics promises exciting new technologies
based on inexpensive and mechanically flexible electronic devices,
and is now seeing the beginning of commercial success. On the
sidelines of this increasingly well-established field are several
emerging technologies with innovative mechanisms and functions that
utilize the mixed ionic/electronic conducting character of
conjugated organic materials. Iontronics: Ionic Carriers in Organic
Electronic Materials and Devices explores the potential of these
materials, which can endow electronic devices with unique
functionalities. Fundamental science and applications With
contributions from a community of experts, the book focuses on the
use of ionic functions to define the principle of operation in
polymer devices. It begins by reviewing the scientific
understanding and important scientific discoveries in the
electrochemistry of conjugated polymers. It examines the known
effects of ion incorporation, including the theory and modulation
of electrochemistry in polymer films, and it explores the coupling
of electronic and ionic transport in polymer films. The authors
also describe applications that use this technology, including
polymer electrochromic devices, artificial muscles, light-emitting
electrochemical cells, and biosensors, and they discuss the
fundamental technological hurdles in these areas. The changes in
materials properties and device characteristics due to ionic
conductivity and electrochemical doping in electrically conductive
organic materials, as well as the importance of these processes in
a number of different and exciting technologies, point to a large
untapped potential in the development of new applications and novel
device architecture. This volume captures the state of the science
in this burgeoning field.
Scientists from different disciplines, including anthropology,
psychology, psychiatry, pediatrics, neurobiology, endocrinology,
and molecular biology, explore the concepts of attachment and
bonding from varying scientific perspectives. Attachment and
bonding are evolved processes; the mechanisms that permit the
development of selective social bonds are assumed to be very
ancient, based on neural circuitry rooted deep in mammalian
evolution, but the nature and timing of these processes and their
ultimate and proximate causes are only beginning to be understood.
In this Dahlem Workshop Report, scientists from different
disciplines-including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, and
behavioral biology-come together to explore the concepts of
attachment and bonding from diverse perspectives. In their studies
they seek to understand the causes or the consequences of
attachment and bonding in general and their different qualities in
individual development in particular. They address such questions
as biobehavioral processes in attachment and bonding; early social
attachment and its influences on later patterns of behavior;
bonding later in life; and adaptive and maladaptive (or
pathological) outcomes. The studies confirm that social bonds have
consequences for virtually all aspects of behavior and may be
protective in the face of both physical and emotional challenges.
Fast Break Sports is a comprehensive study of the joint history of
sports and the media from the early instances of athletic
competition to today's multi-billion dollar industry replete with
million-dollar players, marketing, advertising, and merchandising
deals. Beginning with historical analyses of sports' beginning and
early depictions, the book explains the ways in which athletics
have always held an important role in various societies throughout
the course of human existence. It discusses how sports was, and is,
used to represent the most noble and powerful characteristics of
human behavior and interaction. In addition, the book addresses
topics and issues such as racial barriers in professional sports,
the role of amateur athletics, agents, endorsements, advertising,
and sports films. Fast Break Sports presents the idea that sports
and media are inseparable and interdependent, and that they will
continue to be connected as long as athletic competition exists and
can be recorded. It is an ideal tool for educating students on the
history of sports and its corresponding media coverage. Fast Break
Sports can be used in courses on the business of sports, sports
history, and sports advertising and media.
In social relationships-whether between mates, parents and
offspring, or friends-we find much of life's meaning. But in these
relationships, so critical to our well-being, might we also detect
the workings, even directives, of biology? This book, a rare
melding of human and animal research and theoretical and empirical
science, ventures into the most interesting realms of behavioral
biology to examine the intimate role of endocrinology in social
relationships. The importance of hormones to reproductive
behavior-from breeding cycles to male sexual display-is well known.
What this book considers is the increasing evidence that hormones
are just as important to social behavior. Peter Ellison and Peter
Gray include the latest findings-both practical and theoretical-on
the hormonal component of both casual interactions and fundamental
bonds. The contributors, senior scholars and rising scientists
whose work is shaping the field, go beyond the proximate mechanics
of neuroendocrine physiology to integrate behavioral endocrinology
with areas such as reproductive ecology and life history theory.
Ranging broadly across taxa, from birds and rodents to primates,
the volume pays particular attention to human endocrinology and
social relationships, a focus largely missing from most works of
behavioral endocrinology.
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